User:Tarun2000
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[edit] Contact Information
Real Name: Tarun Pondicherry
Email: tarunpondicherry [at] gmail [dot] com
IRC: tarun2000
Lists: server-devel@lists, devel@lists, sugar@lists, uruguay-xo-coordination [at] groups [dot] google [dot] com
[edit] Skills
Software: PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++, Java, PIC Assembly
Hardware: Basic Circuit Design, Digital Logic Design, PIC Microcontrollers
Language: A really tiny amount of French and Spanish
[edit] OLPC Work
I'm currently working on the Educational Blogger Project. The goal is to provide a simple interface that kids can use to connect to blog tools like Blogger.com. The system is web based, integrated into Moodle and hopefully installed on the XS eventually.
[edit] About Me
I'm an undergraduate at Princeton University deciding between Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Physics for a major. For the most part I'm a self taught programmer and basically learned coding from reverse engineering FOSS stuff, Google and Wikipedia. I wouldn't say I'm a stereotypical programmer geek, but I am enough of one that go into withdrawal if I don't write code for a while. Right now, I'm very interested in graphical compilers and physics animations. I think anyone can learn programming and want to make it easy for people by developing a graphical language that makes programming as easy as describing the solution.
I also love to teach. On weekends during spring and fall I teach electronics courses which I designed to elementary school children at a local community program. I spend a lot of time also writing tutorials on whatever I work on to put on my website (yes, I know its in desperate need of an update and looks like a kindergartener made it).
I've worked on a few random projects over the past few years (hobby and otherwise). Following are some of my favorites:
- Hex Editor - Hex Editor is an Intel Hex File editor I wrote when I couldn't find on that did what I wanted. Its really proof of "necessity is the mother of invention". I was trying to program a chip for a high school project and got frustrated when my teacher gave me the idea to develop a new editor as well as great input and guidance.
- SMART Pot - This was my senior year project where I designed a system to wirelessly monitor the water level in house plants and alert people when they needed to be watered. I pretty much did everything from design to soldering to coding and etching the PCB. I attribute my love of assembly to this project.
- ElVis - ElVis is a scientific visualization program I worked on for two summers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. I mostly added remote monitoring of data and some new types of graphs. Most of my improvements were for simulations being done for ITER and to research the Motional Stark Effect.
